Westfield police are charging the mother of a 1-year-old toddler given Narcan to treat a suspected opiate overdose last month with one count of reckless endangerment to a child based partly on evidence of heroin use at her apartment.

The transit police tactic of randomly searching South Station buses to seize drugs smuggled into Boston from New York may have been dealt a major blow when a judge ruled the practice violates the constitutional rights of passengers.

Patrick Phillips wasn't about to let the case of his missing 2002 Lincoln Town Car go cold. When a friend told him the car had mysteriously vanished from a park-and-ride lot on last Saturday, Phillips picked up the phone and called police to report it stolen. Good thing officer David Loader was on the case.